Olive Oyls 12-month Countdown

OliveOyl_2

Afternoon MoT:hello:
Not a war zone here, though some sullen silences. :rolleyes: Boss says things were OK while I was away, but he doesn't always see things, so I may hear otherwise....

My soup today was L&P, but I haven't managed to eat the 2+ week old banana after all So maybe I'll be making banana bread tonight. All this HM stuff is much admired by my friends, but often they are of the opinion that it doesn't save money, but costs a lot of time. I can set the BM up in a couple of minutes nowadays.

I have a fab new cookery book from Africa that I'm looking forward to trying out, the difficulty will be finding low calorie stuff.... (and possibly some of the more obscure ingredients.)

Lodger & I are going to try and lose weight without signing up to ww. The way I plan to do it is:
I'm going to cut out the g&t's, -I've grown rather accustomed to them over the last 18 months (it's only £4 a bottle at the shop near Popeye )

And in-between meals eating
And chocolate :eek:

And choose lower fat ingredients for recipes

And reduce my portion sizes.

Should be a cinch?
Did you read Martins blog on his weight loss? It was similarly small adjustments (the gin is not a small adjustment though.....) that got him to go down a stone.

NB I must ask Hypno again for her yoghurt making instructions, if I use HM yoghurt instead of cream in my recipes that should help. And I do have a surplus of milk quite often.

OliveOyl_2

ampersand wrote: »

Most excellent to see you, Olive - tell us all AND SHOW US THE LATEST FROCK.
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Not a frock, but a painting.....cost too much to confess at the mo

and everything had been going so well up to then

beanielou

Never bother about the painting Olive~Enjoy it & remember what a good time you had
Im back on the rocky roads of healthier eating too.
Have put on a stone of the weight Id lost~goes on again much easier than it came off :rotfl:

OliveOyl_2

you're SO right, it creeps on.

When you think how much constant effort it takes to lose 2lbs per week, and yet I seem to be able to add that 2lb back with one single meal :rotfl:

slowlyfading

Normally just a lurker on your thread, but selling the piano?! :eek: (musician here - piano )

OliveOyl_2

My car insurance is up for renewal. Existing insurer has offered £215 fully comp. But I've found
£144.50 with £40 Cashback for on-line purchase
with possibly another £55 cashback for doing it through Quidco......

Can't find anything that says I wouldn't qualify for both cashbacks....so possibly insurance for £49.50

If I don't count the Quidco money until it is received, that still is insurance for £104.50 :j

mumoftwins

OliveOyl wrote: »

Afternoon MoT:hello:



I'm going to cut out the g&t's, mmm.........must try something like that myself

And in-between meals eating - don't do this
And chocolate :eek: - have done this recently but don't normally, so whay did I do it???

And choose lower fat ingredients for recipes - always try to

And reduce my portion sizes. - definately! Must start using a smaller plate

Should be a cinch? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
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Had leek and potato soup with bread rolls for tea -scrummy but not very WW :eek:

DS has been discharged from hospital care as cough is getting so much better - he just now needs an xray on his back as he has back ache and the start of a curve to his spine :eek: Dr said it could one of two things - the 2nd being scoliosis which is what I have .

Oh joy, oh joy!!

Ooooh, and I start work next week :j:j:j

OliveOyl_2

slowlyfading wrote: »

Normally just a lurker on your thread, but selling the piano?! :eek: (musician here - piano )

Popeye is the musician in this house, can't survive without it.
His piano here HAS to go, [STRIKE]he[/STRIKE] we bought him a new one for his house in Africa. It is (apparently) FAB, and worth 5 times the amount of his old one. When he returns there isn't room for both :eek: and his company will pay for his stuff to be shipped back at the end of his contract so he will have the fab one here.

(I permitted the purchase of the new one in order to keep him out of lap dancing clubs. The ex-pat life can be exceedingly dull outside work hours; it is a sanity-saver that he enjoys music. (He also has a pool :cool: ))

OliveOyl_2

mumoftwins wrote: »

Had leek and potato soup with bread rolls for tea -scrummy but not very WW :eek:

DS has been discharged from hospital care as cough is getting so much better - he just now needs an xray on his back as he has back ache and the start of a curve to his spine :eek: Dr said it could one of two things - the 2nd being scoliosis which is what I have .

Oh joy, oh joy!!

Ooooh, and I start work next week :j:j:j

:eek: to scoliosis, hopefully it is the other of the 2, and that is something mild and curable (like computer-game-back?)
Glad the cough is getting better too.

And hopefully things getting better means less stress for you as you start your new job. :j

beanielou

^^^MoT Can I please echo what Olive says.